Quotes About Self-awareness

Make good decisions and remember who you are." "Make good decisions and remember who loves you.

Make good decisions and remember who you are, young Master Jones.' He put his bowler back on. 'You think I'm going to forget who I am?' I said. 'You are entering middle school now,' he said. 'I think it quite likely.' Then he opened his door, folded his umbrella, and got inside again.

I believe that our epiphanies or intuitive insights often reflect who we are, or what we are capable of doing, in unexpected ways.

The calendar and his glass and the solicitude of his juniors may tell a man that he is old, and he can see for himself that the world and all around him have aged, but secretly he knows that he is still a youth of eighteen or twenty. And what I have said of a man, I have said because a man is what I am. It must be even more true of a woman, to whom youth and beauty and vitality are so much more to be treasured and conserved.

But, like I said, nobody ever accused me of having an overabundance of good sense.

when you argue for your limitation, you get to keep them.

One of our biggest challenges is making sure our life's purpose doesn't become a beggar's bowl, a bottomless pit of desire continually searching for the next thing that will make us happy. That's a losing proposition.

Historically, we've done a remarkably poor job of estimating our limits.

when our lives are defined by our choices, the all-important question becomes, How do we make good ones?

The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency."3 I AM TOLD OVER AND OVER IN SCRIPTURE THAT MY DUTY AS A CHRISTIAN IS TO BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS CHRIST.

Franciscan priest Richard Rohr writes, "I am most quoted for this line: 'If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.' Always someone else has to suffer because I don't know how to suffer; that is what it comes down to.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

chapter 21 teaches us to be less toxic toward ourselves.

Anger. We have to learn to control our emotions or they will control us.

When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you. The key question is who is in control—you or your emotions? Remember, before you can control your performance you need to be in control of yourself.

Life is too important to take too seriously. If you learn to laugh at yourself you will enjoy a lifetime of entertainment.

The second best method I know to build unshakeable confidence is to become so comfortable in your own skin that nothing and no person can ever make you doubt yourself again. To do this you need to reflect deeply on who you are as a person, what you believe in, what your values are and lastly what your morals are. Once you have identified these and you commit to never breaking them, you will find that there is nothing on the outside world that can determine your confidence levels.

Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?

Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self. So

That's why everything you think about others is really a message from you, to you, about you. And that's how your unconscious mind will think of it. So you definitely don't want to think of people as illusions, or that's what you'll think you are, too.

Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.

How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?

You have a choice about how you react when someone pushes your fear button. No one else controls how you think. No one else controls how you react. You alone do that.